Re: ID Help requested

From: Kevin Fetter (kfetter@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jan 29 2009 - 02:25:20 UTC

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    --- On Wed, 1/28/09, Difflimited@aol.com <Difflimited@aol.com> wrote:
    
    > While viewing Comet Lulin with 15 x 70 binoculars, I noticed
    > some irregular  
    > period flashes, 5-8th magnitude, in the NW quardrant of the
    > 4.4 degree field 
    > of  view. 
    
    There was a satellite called FLTSATCOM F3 ( 11669 ) that was in the area.
    
    It would have been, around the area you reported, at around that time.
    
    It's a nice one, I had observed it flash awhile ago
    
    http://www.kfetter.com/satvideo/flashing-geosat/11669.wmv
    
    >Thought it could have been geo(s) but
    > the declination  
    > strikes me as low for my location?  
    
    Nope :)
    
    Some retired geo's, can pass at that declination. The above one I meantioned, is in a 13 degree inclined orbit. So because of your location on earth, and it's orbital inclination, it can pass at that declination reported.
    
    Kevin
    
    
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